%0 Report
        %A Hanel, Barbara
%A Riphahn, Regina T.
        %T Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland
        %D 2006
        %8 2006 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 2492
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2492
        %X We use reforms in the Swiss public retirement system to identify the responsiveness of retirement timing to financial incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces more than 70 percent of females to postpone their retirement. The responsiveness of male workers, who undergo a different treatment, is lower.
        %K labor force exit
%K social security
%K incentives
%K retirement insurance
%K natural experiment
%K Switzerland